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Author : Davarian L. Baldwin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807887609

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Chicago's New Negroes by Davarian L. Baldwin Pdf

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms a "marketplace intellectual life." Here the thoughts and lives of Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, and Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions of a much wider spectrum of black political and intellectual possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside the more formal arenas of church and academe, Baldwin suggests important new directions for both the historical study and the constructive future of ideas and politics in American life.

Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679763888

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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

Author : James R. Grossman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226309965

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Land of Hope by James R. Grossman Pdf

Grossman’s rich, detailed analysis of black migration to Chicago during World War I and its aftermath brilliantly captures the cultural meaning of the movement.

Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319241711

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Black Protest and the Great Migration by Eric Arnesen Pdf

During World War I, as many as half a million southern African Americans permanently left the South to create new homes and lives in the urban North, and hundreds of thousands more would follow in the 1920s. This dramatic transformation in the lives of many black Americans involved more than geography: the increasingly visible “New Negro” and the intensification of grassroots black activism in the South as well as the North were the manifestations of a new challenge to racial subordination. Eric Arnesen’s unique collection of articles from a variety of northern, southern, black, and white newspapers, magazines, and books explores the “Great Migration,” focusing on the economic, social, and political conditions of the Jim Crow South, the meanings of race in general — and on labor in particular — in the urban North, the grassroots movements of social protest that flourished in the war years, and the postwar “racial counterrevolution.” An introduction by the editor, headnotes to documents, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, and an index are included.

Author : Lawrence Richard Rodgers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0252066057

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Canaan Bound by Lawrence Richard Rodgers Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature as a whole. In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory.

Author : Kenneth L. Kusmer,Joe W. Trotter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226465128

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African American Urban History since World War II by Kenneth L. Kusmer,Joe W. Trotter Pdf

Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject. The first of this volume’s five groundbreaking sections focuses on black migration and Latino immigration, examining tensions and alliances that emerged between African Americans and other groups. Exploring the challenges of residential segregation and deindustrialization, later sections tackle such topics as the real estate industry’s discriminatory practices, the movement of middle-class blacks to the suburbs, and the influence of black urban activists on national employment and social welfare policies. Another group of contributors examines these themes through the lens of gender, chronicling deindustrialization’s disproportionate impact on women and women’s leading roles in movements for social change. Concluding with a set of essays on black culture and consumption, this volume fully realizes its goal of linking local transformations with the national and global processes that affect urban class and race relations.

Author : Robert Charles Anderson,George Freeman Sanborn,Melinde Lutz Sanborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : British Americans
ISBN : WISC:89082385832

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The Great Migration: I-L by Robert Charles Anderson,George Freeman Sanborn,Melinde Lutz Sanborn Pdf

Author : Michael Innis-Jiménez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814785850

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Steel Barrio by Michael Innis-Jiménez Pdf

Michael Innis-Jiménez is a native of Laredo, Texas and Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. He lives in Tuscaloosa where he working on his next book on Latino/a immigration to the American South. In the Culture, Labor, History series

Author : Marcia Chatelain
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0822358484

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South Side Girls by Marcia Chatelain Pdf

In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists formulated a vulnerable image of urban black girlhood that needed protecting. She argues that the construction and meaning of black girlhood shifted in response to major economic, social, and cultural changes and crises, and that it reflected parents' and community leaders' anxieties about urbanization and its meaning for racial progress. Girls shouldered much of the burden of black aspiration, as adults often scrutinized their choices and behavior, and their well-being symbolized the community's moral health. Yet these adults were not alone in thinking about the Great Migration, as girls expressed their views as well. Referencing girls' letters and interviews, Chatelain uses their powerful stories of hope, anticipation and disappointment to highlight their feelings and thoughts, and in so doing, she helps restore the experiences of an understudied population to the Great Migration's complex narrative.

Author : Jake Bittle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781982178253

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The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle Pdf

The untold story of climate migration--the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future. When the subject of migration that will be caused by global climate change comes up in the media or in conversation, we often think of international refugees--those from foreign countries who will emigrate to the United States to escape disasters like rising shorelines and famine. What many people don't realize though, is that climate migration is happening now--and within the borders of the United States. A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is the first book to report on climate migration in the US. From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched California, from the dried-up cotton fields of Arizona to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last decade alone, the federal government has sponsored the relocation of tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Insurance and mortgage markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pushing more people away from their homes. Rising seas have already begun to sink eastern coastal cities, while extreme heat, unprecedented drought, and unstoppable wildfires plague the west. Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement created by climate change, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest national migration we've yet to experience. The Great Displacement compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives--forcing us out of the country's hardest-hit areas, uprooting countless communities, and prompting a massive migration that will fundamentally reshape the United States.

Author : Sabina G. Arora
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680480450

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The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance by Sabina G. Arora Pdf

Away from the bustling nightlife of 1920s Harlem, a literary and cultural rebirth was taking place among African American writers, artists, and performers. Producing works that reflected the racial realities of the era between the end of the Civil War and the beginnings of the civil rights movement, these cultural luminaries helped define a new black consciousness. Readers will learn how the Great Migration and changing opportunities for African Americans informed the vibrant creative period known as the Harlem Renaissance. Bridging social and literary history, this volume provides an interdisciplinary overview and serves as a companion to multiple subject areas.

Author : Pat McKissack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590511599

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Color Me Dark by Pat McKissack Pdf

Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

Author : James Noble Gregory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126850481

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The Southern Diaspora by James Noble Gregory Pdf

Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

Author : Timuel D. Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004702623

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Bridges of Memory by Timuel D. Black Pdf

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Author : Joe William Trotter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253206693

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The Great Migration in Historical Perspective by Joe William Trotter Pdf

"The essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African-American migration which began in the early twentieth century." —Southern Historian "As an overview of a field in transition, this is a valuable and deeply thought-provoking anthology." —Pennsylvania History " . . . provocative and informative . . . " —Louisiana History "The papers themselves are uniformly strong, and read together cast interesting light upon one another." —Georgia Historical Quarterly " . . . well-written and insightful essays . . . " —Journal of American History "This well-researched and well-documented collection represents the latest scholarship on the black migration." —Illinois Historical Journal " . . . an impressive balance of theory and historical content . . . " —Indiana Magazine of History Legions of black Americans left the South to migrate to the jobs of the North, from the meat-packing plants of Chicago to the shipyards of Richmond, California. These essays analyze the role of African Americans in shaping their own geographical movement, emphasizing the role of black kin, friend, and communal network. Contributors include Darlene Clark Hine, Peter Gottlieb, James R. Grossman, Earl Lewis, Shirley Ann Moore, and Joe William Trotter, Jr.